Arbel (moshav)

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Arbel (Hebrew: ארבל‎) is a moshav in the Lower Galilee Regional Council, Israel. The village is adjacent to the Sea of Galilee, Tiberias and is situated on mount Arbel.

Arbel was established in 1949 as a Moshav shitufi (a collective smallholder's settlement that combines the economic features of a kibbutz with the social features of a moshav. Farming is done collectively and profits are shared equally) on the lands of the Arabic village of "Hittin", which its residents fleed from it during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. By the year of 1959 Arbel became Moshav ovdim (a workers cooperative settlement).

The village was founded by retired soldiers whom named it after the nearby ruines site Arbel.

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